A major flaw with lethality

LegitBacon66·Jan 25, 2017·2 votes·1,234 views

You can easily counter it. Any AD assassin you face, since lethality early is really weak, as a mage, just build one armor/tank item after your first. Example, if you play akali, go gunblade into sunfire and the AD assassin can never kill you. This is because lethality does a %of armor based on the enemies level. So if they are even level, you get hardly any bonus, and the raw % is way too low to kill through the armor. This is a massive flaw I just found out and it can be abused.

9 Comments

LankPantsJan 25, 20172 votes

That's how Lethality's intended to work. It's meant to be strong VS squishies, someone building a Sunfire isn't really a squishy.

LegitBacon66Jan 25, 20171 votes

When my laner builds it then i can't fIght my laner

LankPantsJan 25, 20171 votes

Based on the game you're talking about you shouldn't have been able to fight that Akali. Before the Akali bought that Sunfire Cape she had 7 kills, I don't know how many assists she had exactly but I'd assume she had a few. She was up 8021 gold to 5625 gold, before she had the Sunfire. Why would you be able to fight that? She's basically up an item on you.

If she was more even with you then you should still struggle to kill her and she should struggle to kill you. In a situation where you both all in however I'd expect the Sunfire Akali to win, Sunfire is a great counter to burst and that's intended. It's meant to be very hard to burst tanky champs.

LovelleJan 26, 20171 votes

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That's how Lethality's intended to work. It's meant to be strong VS squishies, someone building a Sunfire isn't really a squishy.

That's the thing though. All it takes is someone building Ninja tabi and/or a chain vest to counter it, which makes items like BC more useful than Lethality in almost every situation. It sucks because Youmuu's has always been one of my favorite items and I hate to see what's happened to it.

ErockandrollJan 26, 20171 votes

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That's the thing though. All it takes is someone building Ninja tabi and/or a chain vest to counter it, which makes items like BC more useful than Lethality in almost every situation. It sucks because Youmuu's has always been one of my favorite items and I hate to see what's happened to it.

It's not about how to counter it, it's about who counters it. (But by all means, build a cloth armor on the ADC.)

Toxic LucianJan 25, 20171 votes

It's their total level not the level difference

SGT Dingle BerryJan 25, 20171 votes

It's also getting a slight buff 7.2.

Edge of DaybreakJan 25, 20171 votes

Yeah. after buff it will be granting 6 more armor pen assuming you go full lethality which is nice. at the very least cloth armor just cancels out most of lethality now instead of outright negating it.

LovelleJan 26, 20171 votes

I find lethality to not be very useful against bruisers, tanks, and fighters, which are what I face off against often on Twisted Treeline. It's also not very good against mages on 3v3, since Wooglet's has like 45 armor and most of them start off with double Dorans rings. Perhaps on SR it finds it's uses, but on 3v3 not even Rengar, Talon, and Khazix build it often, and especially not as a first item. It's decent if you're against a squishy team, which rarely ever happens, which makes items like Black Cleaver, Maw, and Hydra just flat out better in pretty in much every game.

Barely anyone really gets squishy enough to bother with a lethality build. ADCs are, but they die to everything anyway.